Books

The personification of the nation as a woman, mother or goddess can be traced back to the nationalist struggle for independence and found expression in literature, visual culture and performance arts....

Ahead of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, Hachette India on Tuesday announced the expanded paperback edition of five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand's widely acclaimed memoir "Mind M...

"Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: They are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all."  This quote f...

Book: Going: Stories of kinship Author: Keki N. Daruwalla Publisher: Speaking Tiger Price: Rs 499 Keki N. Daruwalla’s latest collection of stories, Going, would leave readers with an ac...

Books: Phantom Plague: How tuberculosis shaped history Author: Vidya Krishnan Publisher: Viking Price: 799 From Thomas Mann’s  The Magic Mountain to Ritwik Ghatak’s ...

Book: The Commissioner for Lost Causes Author: Arun Shourie Publisher: Viking Price: Rs 999 Arun Shourie’s memoir fills a gap in the prolific writing already available on some of India&rsquo...

Book: In the Margins: On the pleasures of reading and writing Author: Elena Ferrante Publisher: Europa Price: $14.99 Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of a novelist whose real-life identity, despite...

Book: Untranquil Recollections: Nation Building in post-Liberation Bangladesh Author: Rehman Sobhan Publisher: Sage, New Delhi, 2021 Price: Rs 595 It would require a Greek trag...

Julie Banerjee Mehta is an author of Dance of Life and co-author of the bestselling biography Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen. She has a PhD in English and South Asian Studies from the Un...

DW's Shabnam Surita believed she had nothing in common with the boy wizard. But 25 years after J. K. Rowling's first "Harry Potter" book was published, she recalls how their very dif...